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(No Model.) V. H. ROTHSCHILD.

QOLLAR 0R GUFI'.

No. 341,606. Patented May 11, 1886.

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HIM 2 T UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

v. HENRY ROTHscHILD, OE NEW YORK, N. Y.

COLLAR OR C'U FF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,606. dated May 1l,1886.

Application filed October 5, 1885. Serial No. 179,004.

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, V. HENRY ROTHSCHILD, of New York, in the county andState of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inMarking Shirts, Shirt-Collars, and Shirt-Cuffs, of which the followingis a specification.

It is customary to mark upon neekbands of shirts and upon collars andcuffs the sizes to which they are made. These markings are quiteimportant to the dealers in these articles, because they obviate thenecessity for measuring the articles in selling them. Great diiculty hasbeen experienced in marking the articles when they are made ofdark-colored materials. No ink which is conspicuous and whichwill standthe laundering process has been obtainable for use on the dark-coloredmaterials.

It is the object of my improvement to provide a means for legibly anddurably marking the articles when made of dark-colored materials.

My improvement involves the weaving or otherwise delineating a series ofeach of the size-numbers upon a strip of White Woven material and thestopping off of the weave ofthe material close to each of thesize-numbers, so that a size-number may be out off the strip withoutbeing liable to unravel. The material containing a size-number isinserted between the component plies or thicknesses of the material inthe article to be marked, and is secured there by the stitching wherebythe component parts are fastened together.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a face view of a striphavingaseries of sizenumbers delineated upon it. Fig. 2 is aview of ashirt-neekband having a part of such a strip as is shown in Fig. lattached to it. Fig. 3 is a view of a collar similarly marked. Fig. 4 isa view of a cuff marked in the same way. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectionof an article marked according to my improvement.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

The -strip A shown in Fig. 1 is made of Woven material, and will bewhite or approximately white. On it are delineated, in a conspicuouscolor and by weaving or other suitable means,a series of size-numbers.Between (No model.)

the size numbers the weave of the strip is stopped *ofil in any suitableway--as, for instance, by means of parallel bars a, woven or stitchedinto the strip. The strip may conse` quently be cut between thesize-numbers without unraveling.

Each of the articles to be marked, which I have shown in Figs. 2, 3, 4,and 5, is composed of two or more plies or thicknesses, b, that areunited by stitching c.

During the operation of uniting the component plies or thicknesses ofthe articles the operator inserts one end of a strip such as I haveshown in Fig. l between the plies or thicknesses. It is then secured bythe stitching that unites the plies or thicknesses. The strip Ais thencut oli' close to the size-nn mber, just beyond a point where the weaveof the strip is stopped oii", and the part left projects in the form ofa bag, T, bearing asize-number. The size-number with which the articleis thus provided is not only legible, but is conspicuous. It will,moreover, stand the laundering process. This is not only an effectiveway, but it is also avery cheap way, of marking the articles. Itseffectiveness is of the greatest importance, as it will enable dealersto avoid mistakes that have always occurred through mismatching collarsand shirts made of darkeolorcd materials, owing to their inability toread the size-numbers.

The purchasers of the articles can cutoff the tags, if they choose, asthe tags are useful merely to the dealer in the articles under ordinarycircumstances.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A shirt neekband, collar, or cuff having a strip bearing a size number,which strip is stopped off upon each end close up to the sizenumber andinserted between the component plies or thicknesses of the materialcomposing the shirt neckband, collar, or cuff, and secured by thestitching which unites such plies or thicknesses of material,substantially as specified.

V. HENRY ROTHSCHILD.

Witnesses:

ALBERT ARONsON, Isaac DREYEUs.

